A major breakthrough in the selection of text in QuarkXPress, StyleIt will change the way you work in QuarkXPress forever. So smooth in its use and application, StyleIt will quickly become that extra pair of hands you've been wishing for. Here's how it works.
When installed, StyleIt places a special marquee tool in the XPress toolbar and on the Command Pad palette of the Kitchen Sink XTension, if installed. With this tool you draw a marquee around the text you wish to select. All text within or touching the marquee will be selected, including text that is not contiguous. The text can even be in different text boxes on different pages of a spread. See the example below, in which the bullets in both boxes are selected with one StyleIt marquee, and changed from Futura to Zapf Dingbats in one operation.
Once text is selected with StyleIt, a Text Attribute dialog appears and you can apply character level formatting or ƒaceIt styles to the selected text. You also have the option to append to the existing styling of the text, or to replace the existing styling with the chosen settings.
StyleIt will also copy styling information from text and then apply that styling to any range of text you specify. To copy styling information, highlight the text to copy from, then click on the StyleIt tool and draw a marquee around the area to which you wish to apply the copied styling. When you release the mouse, the attributes will be applied. If you'd like to apply those same settings repeatedly, just hold down the option key as you release the mouse and the last settings used will be applied again.
StyleIt has one more surprise. If you select a range of text and hold down the control key before releasing the mouse, the text selected will retain the geometric shape of the original selection, even though a different size or font has been chosen.
